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Cheese Runner

Kai Hutchence · Massive Corporation Game Studios · 2022-07-14

Steam

CasualSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jul 14, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Trade illicit cheese in a dystopian cyberpunk city filled with police killbots trying to hunt you down in this ASCII Art text-based early 80s retro trading game. Like a fine blue cheese, this isn't for everyone.

Cheese Runner is a 2022 Casual, Simulation, and Strategy game priced at $2.99, with a Positive review sentiment (100% of 25 reviews) and an estimated 50,000 .. 100,000 owners.

0
playing now
100%
positive of 25 reviews
Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$2.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 20:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 14 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 56% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 66% of 29,066 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

All-time low: $1.49 at Steam (2026-08-03)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $2.99 · on sale 2 of 4 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
9920222024Week of 2022-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

002026-09-15 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 20:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$2.99$1.492022-07-142026-08-102022-07-14 — best price $2.992023-06-29 — best price $2.002023-07-13 — best price $2.992026-06-25 — best price $2.242026-07-09 — best price $2.992026-08-03 — best price $1.492026-08-10 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

32
achievements tracked
40.8%
earned "Big Money"
11.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsStatsSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

1980sCrimeRetroCasualTradingColorfulStrategyCyberpunkCapitalismDark Humor

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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